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PHILADELPHIA – The struggling Arizona Coyotes lastlyobtained their first win of the season — nevertheless itcertain didn’t come straightforward.

Alex Goligoski scored late in additional time after the Coyotes blew a two-goal lead within theultimate minute of regulation throughout a Four-Three victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday evening.

Goligoski scored with 14.Four seconds left on the clock in OT and Arizona (1-10-1) averted setting an NHL reportfor many consecutive losses to start out a season.

“Yeah, it felt prefer it wasn’t going to be straightforward when it didn’t come,” Goligoski stated. “And it wasn’t, however we caught with it. It’s very nice. We don’t have to fret about that anymore. We willform of go about our enterprise.”

Jordan Martinook, Christian Dvorak and Brandon Perlini additionally scored for the Coyotes, who matched the 1943-44 Rangers (Zero-11) by dropping their first 11 video games.

“Aid, pleasure, happiness; you'll be able to go on and on with all of the adjectives you need,” Martinook stated. “All people is completely satisfied. It’s goodto complete a sport with a smile in your face, though we in all probabilityneed to win video gamesa bit ofsimpler than that.”

Sean Couturier scored twice and Ivan Provorov had three assists for the Flyers.

Arizona was in placeto shut it out earlier, however Jordan Weal scored on a rebound with 53 seconds left within the third interval and Couturier tipped a shot previous goalie Scott Wedgewood with 16 seconds left in regulation to tie the sport at Three.

Goligoski scored the winner from a pointy angle within theThree-on-Threeadditional timeinterval after a go from Clayton Keller. The Coyotes leaped off the bench and swarmed Goligoski to have a good time their first win.

“Now we obtained that monkey off our again,” Martinook stated. “Hopefully we are able tomaintain going.”

Wedgewood made 28 saves in his Arizona debut, and Niklas Hjalmarsson added a pair of assists for the Coyotes. Wedgewood was acquired Saturday from the Devils for a 2018 fifth-round draft choose. Arizona is awaiting the return of starter Antti Raanta, who has been out since Oct. 12 with an upper-body damage.

“I stated, ‘You guys are enjoyinglaborious. Hold doing the suitableissues and good issues will occur,’” Tocchet stated. “And it did. We simplyshouldmaintain that mentality.”

Weal pulled Philadelphia inside a aim by scoring on a rebound earlier than Couturier’s equalizer. Provorov batted down the puck simplycontained in the blue line to maintain the play within the offensive zone and handed to Claude Giroux, who despatched a cross-ice go to Couturier.

The Coyotes struck first for the ninth time in 12 video games when Martinook completed from shutvarysimply 2:20 in after a deft go from Hjalmarsson from the slot. Hjalmarsson faked a slap shot and handed to the weak aspect, the place Martinook went to his knees and lifted the puck over diving Flyers goalie Brian Elliott.

Arizona made it 2-Zerosimplygreater than 5½ minutes in a while Dvorak’s first aim of the season. Oliver Ekman-Larsson took the preliminary shot from the purpose. The try deflected to Dvorak, who shot previous Elliott’s proper pad from a pointy angle.

It was an unpleasant first interval for Philadelphia, which managed simply three photographs — none by a ahead — within the opening 20 minutes.

“We made an awesome push to tie the sport up, howeverit's important to rewind to the beginning of the sport,” Flyers coach Dave Hakstol stated. “As a gaggle, we have been too far beneath the bar. We weren’t fast and laborious defending. We didn’t begin the hockey sportthe place we needed to be and wanted to be.”

The Coyotes prolonged their result inThree-Zero on Perlini’s power-play aim 1:24 into the third. Perlini’s fast wrist shot from the suitable circle beat Elliott on the glove aspect.

Philadelphia obtained a aimagain 40 seconds in a while Couturier’s power-play tally from the slot.

Doubtful NHL mark

The NHL report for longest winless streak to start out a season is 15 video games. The New York Rangers, who beat the Coyotes 5-2 on Thursday evening, set that mark in 1943-44 once they opened with 14 losses and a tie.

The Coyotes tied the report for second-longest winless streak to start out an NHL season once theymisplaced to the Devils in New Jersey on Saturday.

Arizona now shares that streak with three differentgroups: the 1927-28 Pittsburgh Pirates, who opened with eight losses and three ties; the 1973-74 Minnesota North Stars, who began with 5 losses and 6 ties and the 1995-96 San Jose Sharks, who started the season with seven losses and 4 ties.